Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

EEG captures affective touch: CT-optimal touch and neural oscillations

Published in: Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, Volume 18, Issue 1, 155-166 Abstract “Tactile interactions are of developmental importance to social and emotional interactions across species. In beginning to understand the affective component of tactile stimulation, research has begun to elucidate the neural mechanisms that underscore slow, affective touch. Here, we extended this emerging body of […]

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Oscillatory brain activity differentially reflects false belief understanding and complementation syntax processing

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

Published in: Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, Volume 18, Issue 1, 189-201 Abstract “False belief understanding (FBU) enables people to consider conflicting beliefs about the same situation. While language has been demonstrated to be a correlate of FBU, there is still controversy about the extent to which a specific aspect of language, complementation syntax, is a

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Poststimulation time interval-dependent effects of motor cortex anodal tDCS on reaction-time task performance

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Published in: Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, Volume 18, Issue 1, 167-175 Abstract “Anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) induces long-term potentiation-like plasticity, which is associated with long-lasting effects on different cognitive, emotional, and motor performances. Specifically, tDCS applied over the motor cortex is considered to improve reaction time in simple and complex tasks. The timing

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Childhood maltreatment is associated with increased neural response to ambiguous threatening facial expressions in adulthood: Evidence from the late positive potential

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Published in: Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, Volume 18, Issue 1, 143-154 Abstract “Childhood maltreatment increases lifetime vulnerability for psychopathology. One proposed mechanism for this association is that early maltreatment increases vigilance for and attention to subtle threat cues, persisting outside of the environment in which maltreatment occurs. To test this possibility, the present study examined

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Pure correlates of exploration and exploitation in the human brain

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Published in: Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, Volume 18, Issue 1, 117-126 Abstract “Balancing exploration and exploitation is a fundamental problem in reinforcement learning. Previous neuroimaging studies of the exploration–exploitation dilemma could not completely disentangle these two processes, making it difficult to unambiguously identify their neural signatures. We overcome this problem using a task in which

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Older adults’ neural activation in the reward circuit is sensitive to face trustworthiness

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Published in: Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, Volume 18, Issue 1, 21-34 Abstract “We examined older adult (OA) and younger adult (YA) neural sensitivity to face trustworthiness in reward circuit regions, previously found to respond to trustworthiness in YA. Interactions of face trustworthiness with age revealed effects exclusive to OA in the amygdala and caudate, and

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Rodent ultrasonic vocalizations as biomarkers of future alcohol use: A predictive analytic approach

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

Published in: Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, Volume 18, Issue 1, 88-98 Abstract “Excessive alcohol consumption has a vast, negative impact on society. Rodent models have been successful in furthering our understanding of the biological underpinnings that drive alcohol consumption. Rodents emit ultrasonic vocalizations (USVs) that are each composed of several acoustic characteristics (e.g., frequency, duration,

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Elaborative feedback: Engaging reward and task-relevant brain regions promotes learning in pseudoword reading aloud

Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience

Published in: Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, Volume 18, Issue 1, 68-87 Abstract “Although much is known about the cognitive and neural basis of establishing letter-sound mappings in learning word forms, relatively little is known about what makes for the most effective feedback during this process. We sought to determine the neural basis by which elaborative

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